Crops in Botswana grow slowly due to dryness and cold-weather, and this is a barrier to the achievement of a low carbon society based on bioenergy. However, the country has an abundance of wild plants that can hold up against dryness and winter season cold. It also has large numbers of jatropha curcas trees, whose seeds have plentiful quantities of an oil thought about to hold fantastic promise as a biofuel. The objective of this task is to utilize these resources to develop jatropha curcas varieties that are resistant to dryness and cold weather and offer high efficiency, in addition to to establish methods of cultivating these varieties. In this way, a biological technique will help to achieve a low carbon society.

Creating a bioenergy production model based upon the nation's own biological resources
A database of biological resource information connecting to jatropha curcas will be constructed and ideal varieties will be established. Moreover, in this desert that goes through cold weather, efforts will be made to establish a cultivation system that is flexible with regard to environment change. The job will work to construct a sustainable bioenergy production model utilizing plant genetic resources that are native to Botswana.